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Maria Graham, life among the elite in Chile and Brazil -- Flora Tristán, peregrinations of a self-proclaimed pariah -- Fanny Calderón de la Barca, women's lives in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico -- Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish novelist in the New World -- Adèle Toussaint-Samson, a Parisian in a slavocrat society -- Elizabeth Agassiz, a naturalist's wife and educator in Brazil -- Ina von Binzer, a German schoolteacher in Brazil -- Fanny Chambers Gooch, keeping house in northern Mexico -- Helen Sanborn, a Wellesley graduate's travels in Guatemala -- Marguerite Dickins, a naval captain's wife on tour --Nineteenth-century female travel accounts of Latin America -- Selected titles on women in nineteenth-century Latin America

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The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the people and places that they encountered. Women through Women's Eyes draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a number of Latin Ame

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